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Within the groups themselves are contradictory beliefs and positions Doesn’t this philosophy preclude the idea of any sort of united movement? As a highly relevant example here, advocacy groups; it’s in no small part their purpose to tell people things on behalf of a group. Stepping back slightly, I don’t particularly disagree with you here nor are you telling me anything I’m not already aware of - but I think it’s important to note that you’re demonstrating my original point rather well. You’re familiar with this topic, and you’re rejecting my position as an outsider on the basis of your own cultural relevance with it. Now I could insist that you’re wrong, and go off on how ‘white’ is a term whose definition is almost entirely contextually fluid and so it fundamentally lacks any usefulness in judging across cultures, but that would similarly be me imposing my own cultural values on a context where you clearly consider yourself more capable of commenting with authority on the subject than I am. Hence, not wanting to do a cultural imperialism by, you know, doing exactly that. You’re welcome to continue talking about this, I am genuinely interested, but do keep in mind that you’re preaching to the choir here. I just haven’t gone on about it because it was never expressly relevant to the topic, and I just… honestly, don’t have the capacity to make this a priority. Other people I trust and who this is relevant towards, like yourself, are more than capable of handling this and I have many other issues of equal importance I’m better positioned to address.